<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1255"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Well, it looks like the NY Times actually covered the Beit Umar convoy that I was on and wrote about a couple of days ago.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">It is a pretty decent article actually.  The only things I disagree with are the number of people/cars and the amount of food.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">They use very conservative estimates:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">The odd issue is the number of cars...each car had a number put on it as it was leaving Jerusalem on the convoy.  There were 99 numbered cars....not 75 as said.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Plus Two tons of food is way too consevative an estimate.  My friend Hillel for the last month had been doing a food drive at his art school and he brought 1 ton of food (rice, flour and sugar) alone.  That is not including the lorry full of food, which was at least 6 times as large (approx. a full semi), and other cars full of personal donations.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">But besides that, it is accurate, right down to the food truck breaking down.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Israelis Bring Help to Arabs in a village Under Seige</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/international/middleeast/30MIDE.html?ex=1010768290&ei=1&en=b07bbc3331fe4084">http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/international/middleeast/30MIDE.html?ex=1010768290&ei=1&en=b07bbc3331fe4084</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Best wishes,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Bryan </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>